Sparqle, an Amsterdam-based startup constructing an emission-free logistics infrastructure for contemporary e-commerce, has raised €1.5 million, together with financing from the European Union, for European growth.
The corporate is energetic within the Netherlands, Belgium, and France and is working to increase into a number of European cities.
“Our mission is to create a logistics ecosystem that mixes sustainability with efficiency and buyer satisfaction, assembly the calls for of recent e-commerce. We don’t design band-aids for a damaged system– we’re constructing the muse on which present and next-generation e-commerce can thrive,” stated Ruurd Tjeerdema, co-founder of Sparqle.
Throughout 2025–2026, EU-Startups reporting signifies sustained funding in logistics and e-commerce supply infrastructure throughout a number of layers of the worth chain. This contains Relay’s €33.4m Sequence A to modernise parcel supply operations, HIVED’s €35.6m increase to increase its electrical, e-commerce-first supply community, and Portugal-based Lyzer securing over €10m to scale its retail logistics platform.
Within the out-of-home (OOH) supply section, London-based HubBox raised €6.8m to develop its OOH supply software program, whereas Bloq.it closed a €28m Sequence B to increase its locker infrastructure throughout Europe.
Funding has additionally flowed into fleet, fulfilment, and operational platforms, together with Vok Bikes’ €5m spherical for electrical cargo bikes, Quivo’s €5.2m funding to help fulfilment growth, MyDello’s €3.1m increase in transport logistics, and Qargo’s €28m Sequence B for the event and scaling of its transport administration system.
Based in 2022 by Tim van Alphen and Ruurd Tjeerdema, Sparqle is a sustainable supply community that connects e-commerce manufacturers with emission-free transport choices. By combining proprietary software program, rider app, and fleet of e-cargo bikes and electrical autos, Sparqle claims to optimise supply routes for max effectivity and minimal environmental impression.
Sparqle believes that whereas e-commerce has advanced in velocity, transparency, and client expectations, supply is lagging. “The supply business is outdated, the system is outdated, andthere may be an excessive amount of deal with value and quantity as a substitute of buyer expertise. In the present day’s customers count on a seamless expertise at each step of the client journey. However what we regularly see is that this constructive expertise ends at supply, the place a single misstep can immediately destroy the belief a model has fastidiously constructed. That’s merely not acceptable anymore,” says Tjeerdema.
Sparqle notes that supply is usually seen as the ultimate step of a transaction, nevertheless it truly serves as a key touchpoint that considerably impacts buyer expertise and model notion. “Supply is the one bodily level of contact a web based model has with its buyer. It needs to be greater than merely getting the bundle from A to B; it must really feel like an built-in model expertise. We see supply as a part of the product our shoppers promote,” provides Tjeerdema.
Final 12 months, the corporate formally turned a Licensed B Company. In 2024, it accomplished a €1.2 million funding spherical. The funding was led by a gaggle of enterprise angels, together with the previous Managing Director of Deliveroo EU, the previous CTO of Simply Eat Takeaway, and the Bloomon founder, alongside Graduate Entrepreneur Fund. Decathlon and Ricoh are a few of its shoppers.
Tim van Alphen, co-founder of Sparqle, stated, “We’re constructing an infrastructure designed to be the spine of future-focused e-commerce. Our focus is on corporations that perceive that conversion, buyer satisfaction, and sustainability go hand in hand – and that’s precisely what we ship.”
